One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Man is an imagining being.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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